Method for enhanced short message service

• US 20040137922A1
• Filed: 12/29/2003
• Published: 07/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kang, Bum-Chul
• Granted Patent: US 7,321,779 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

A method and apparatus for an enhanced SMS can include receiving a short message, checking whether the received message is user data, processing the user data by referring to previously received control data if the received message is user data, and outputting the processed user data to a screen. The short message and SMS can be used in all mobile telecommunication devices. Further, such a short message and SMS can be encapsulated to the conventional short message service (SMS) protocol, and thereby used in a system or a protocol without change.

Claims

1. A method for an enhanced SMS, comprising:

receiving a short message;

checking whether the received message is user data;

processing the user data using corresponding control data when the received message is user data; and

outputting the processed user data.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising storing the corresponding control data in a memory when the received message is control data, wherein the processed user data is output to a screen.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein when control data from the same sender already exists in the memory, the control data from the same sender is updated using the corresponding control data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user data includes a plurality of characters.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the plurality of characters has an array structure of a character unit.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the control data is composed of a plurality of command sets that set at least two attributes of a character.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein a command set comprises:

location information of a character;

command item information; and

attribution information of the command item information.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the command item information includes at least one of font control, color control, size control and text effect control.

9. The method of claim 8, where in the attribution information includes a plurality of font types for the font control, a plurality of colors for the color control, a plurality of sizes for the size control and a plurality of text effects for the text effect control.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the short message includes only one of user data and control data.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein a message of the corresponding control data is received before the user data.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing comprises applying attributes of characters set by each command set of control data to each character of the user data.

13. A method for a short message service (SMS), comprising:

transmitting a short message including control data;

transmitting a short message including user data; and

processing the user data by referring to received control data in a receiving terminal.

14. The method of claim 13, comprising outputting the processed user data to a screen.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the processing the user data comprises applying attributes of characters determined by each command set of control data to a plurality of characters of the user data.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein a command set comprises:

location information of a character;

command item information; and

attribution information of the command item information.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the control data and the user data are sent by the same sender.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the short message of the corresponding control data is received before the short message of the user data by the receiving terminal, wherein when the corresponding control data from the same sender already exists, the corresponding control data from the same sender is updated.

19. An apparatus, comprising:

a terminal configured to determine whether SMS data is first type data or second type data, wherein the first type data determines attributes of the at least one portion of corresponding second type data; and

a network configured to couple the terminal to a communication system.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the first type data is composed of a plurality of command sets that determine at least two attributes of a character in the corresponding second type data, wherein a command set comprises:

location information of a character;

command item information; and

attribution information of the command item information.

21. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the terminal is at least one of a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the apparatus is a mobile terminal.

23. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the apparatus comprises at least one mobile terminal and a base station.